Saturday, October 2, 2010

Chiron Poetry Reading Conference Call

Dear Radical Readers,

You’re invited to share an online adventure with me, a reading of Poems to Heal the Healer: The 12 Chiron Signs. There's no charge to participate. Your only possible cost is to call in to Free Conference Call. (No charge for the conference/reading itself, but the access number is not toll- free.) Many of you have long distance bundled into your mobile phone or landline fees, so there’s no additional charge to you in those cases. Here are the details:

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

6:00 pm Pacific, 7:00 Mountain, 8:00 Central,
9:00 Eastern

By reservation only. Sign-up here with Chiron Poetry Reading in the subject header. Please state your name (at least your first name), location, and Chiron sign. (If you don’t know your Chiron sign, send your date, time and place of birth. I’ll look it up for you.) With this information, I can e-mail you follow-up materials and everything you need to participate. By knowing how many people are attending with each Chiron sign, I’ll have a hint in advance how to allot time for discussion. Here’s your chance to comment and ask questions about your Chiron sign and Chironic experiences!

Recommended reading
Poems to Heal the Healer: The 12 Chiron Signs

If you purchase the e-book beforehand (see sidebar), you’ll have the option of reading along and seeing the artwork for each poem.

Not sure yet if you want to buy the e-book? Here’s your chance to hear the poems and then decide if you’d enjoy having all 12 on separate pages with beautiful graphics, each suitable for framing for yourself or as a gift to a friend.

Instructions for call-in will be given to those who sign up along with the final conference agenda. The poetry reading call and discussion will last 1.5 hours. The abbreviated agenda:

• Introductions and brief discussion of poetry as a healing art

• Reading the first six poems for the Chiron signs (Aries through Virgo)

• Discussion of first six

• Reading the second six poems for the Chiron signs (Libra through Pisces)

• Discussion of second six

• Wrap-up

Time Zones Outside the US

The vast majority of Radical readers come from the US, but our readership is global. Currently, the top ten countries or regions of our readers by frequency of visits are the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, and New Zealand.

It’s not logistically possible to cover all the time zones across the globe in one call, since it will be an odd hour for a large part of the world. (If you’re willing to call in the middle of your night at the currently scheduled time, you’re welcome!)

This first poetry reading will be accessible on a weeknight for most of our readers in the USA, Canada, and South America. If we have enough interest in other countries, I’ll do another reading at a time convenient to other time zones. If you’re interested, e-mail me with the header Chiron Poems – Outside US. Please indicate your country and time zone, and I’ll keep you posted on whether there are enough takers to arrange another conference call at a time that works in the main for those who express an interest. I think we should be able to find enough support easily for a second call for the countries +/- an hour or two of GMT/Europe. Please also state your preference for time, such as weekday evening or weekend (Saturday or Sunday?).

I look forward to sharing these poems with you—and sharing our voices with each other! This is an intuitive and creative way to learn more about Chiron. I hope many of you will join us.

Blessings All,
Joyce

PS – If this works well for us, I may offer classes online through conference calls.

3 comments:

The future descendsfrom the fear-embroidered skiesthe vision is of holocaust -- when everybody diesA new day is dawning, but is it sun or storm?We have a chance to make our markbut is it right or wrong?The military marchesThe anti-warriors tooWe take our stand in battleThe many and the fewSpinning tales of magic, of wizardry and fateWe want to know just how it ends before it's all too lateWe sing our song too lateWe right our wrongs too lateWe want to know the dateTo find a better fate

Can I tell you?Can I help you to know or understand?Can I utter the words that will make you see me?Standing here before you, I want to take your handto be swirled up into a magical dancingto be taken to worlds of beauty entrancingto give you the will and the wonder to set you free.Can you see me?

Plutonic Verse

As long as it matters that I existAs long as I've something to go back toAs long as there is a community of which I am an integral partThe rest is just detailsAnd though "the devil is in the details"So are the gods.

One Hand Clapping

Is a reflection in a glass,like moonlight,half empty or half fullor, like moonlightfilled with the stuff of dreams?What is the sound of moonlightdripping onto the earthdown a silver stair?What is the demand of dreamlight?Emotion spilling onto sand or clay,roaring like soundwaves?Light coalescing into sound into waves into sea?What is the demand of sky of sea of firedripping through the twilight?Reflectionshalf moonlight, half mind.

Revelation

Weave into the fabric of a tribe of artistic dancers.Fall under the spell of pure magic.Silent night, peace and coldImbue me with musicIn ecstasy, I dance to the stars.

This poem is based on the archetype of the Wounded Healer, Chiron, who could not heal his own wound and so devoted himself to healing others.

Karmic Lament

I have opened so many doorsFor others to walk through;I have loved so often and well;I have forgiven so many timesThat the leafy shreds I useTo bind my wounds are worn as well andSigh for my deliverance.

Love, deliver me so thatI may be enveloped in your comfort;Hold me in your lap.This time, open the door for me;Welcome me to surrender.Welcome me to the careOf a loving trust, for I cry,Kneeling, bruised, weeping fromWounds that seep so slowlyMy breath is but a sutured sob.

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Poems to Heal the Healer: The 12 Chiron Signs

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What is a Radical Virgo?

To learn the characteristics of a Radical Virgo, read Joyce Mason’s article, “The Radical Virgo.” In a nutshell, these Virgos are not the old fussbudget stereotype—no Felix Ungers or Adrian Monks here. Radical Virgos have the potential to change the world through their ability to develop and discover their unique pattern, becoming true human beings—not “human doings.” Radical Virgos give service in a whole new way by contributing to their community and world what they were designed to give. When we each do that, we have made heaven on earth. It’s like having all the cogs in the great wheel of creation turning like they were just oiled!

You don't even have to be a Sun Virgo to have the characteristics of a Radical Virgo, though any planets in the V-sign help. You don’t join this club. You recognize that you already belong.

Radical Virgo Vision

This award-winning blog is a place where all signs--not just Virgos--learn how to express the best of their star map.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for. ~ Oscar Wilde

Who is "The Radical Virgo?"

Joyce Mason has Sun in the last degree of Virgo, three planets in Libra, Taurus Rising and a Capricorn Moon. She's a "PUNC," or a person with a prominence of the outer planets Pluto, Uranus, Neptune--add bridging and healing Chiron. (See her Outerplanetary People series for more on PUNCs.) Joyce is often mistaken for an Aquarius/ Sagittarius blend. Even if you don’t speak astrology, that makes sense on some symbolic level because they both end in “ius.” She believes that I and Us are one in the same—and celebrates the human spirit in which we’re all joined.

First and foremost a writer, Joyce was a consulting astrologer, tarot reader, dreamworker, and flower essence practitioner for 25 years. Her astrological specialties are the sign of Virgo and the centaur planet, Chiron. She writes on these and many other topics. Read her complete bio and astrology articles on her Writer Joyce Mason website.

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